Piranhas

Piranhas
2045
Information
Type	Party gang
Status	Active (2045)
HQ	Piranha Palace
Location(s)	Night City
Faction Locations	Playland by the Sea
Main Leader	Corpse Reviver (2045)
Leader(s)	Bazooka Joe (2045)
Notable People	See Members
Book Stats
Threat Level	E (2020)
Threat Code	D4D (2020)
Appearance(s)
Game(s)	Cyberpunk 2020 Cyberpunk RED
Literature	Night City Sourcebook Cyberpunk RED Jumpstart Kit Stickball Corporate Conapts and Studio Apartments Danger Gal Dossier Night City 2045 Atlas

The Piranhas are a gang operating in Night City.

History

2020s

Around 2020, the Piranhas were a small party gang who lived for the party and loved to have fun, though no one was sure what this "fun" was exactly. They were based in an old convenience store in the Combat Zone in South Night City. The gang was focused on partying (which meant everything to them), drinking Smash, taking and dealing drugs, and occasionally mugging people; all this centered on a "just because" lifestyle.

At some point after the Fourth Corporate War, the Piranhas left their convenience store, though they were still considered a burned-out gang of nobodies who simply liked to party.

2030s - 2040s

In the 2030s, a young girl from one of the Combat Zones known by her nickname of Corpse Reviver joined them. She roared through the ranks, and after her predecessor died by overdose, Corpse took control of the gang. Under her leadership, the Piranhas absorbed several other two-bit party gangs, including an attempted retread of the D.J.'s, and brought them all together, embraced their talents, and organized them into cells known as "shoals." All this was done to turn the Piranhas into the reigning party monarchs of Night City. For every group Corpse Reviver brought in, the Piranhas as a whole gained something new: lights and sound techs, mixologists, cooks, dancers and more. Like her namesake, Corpse took the bloody remains of half-dozen burned-out gangs and raised them into a force capable of conquering the party scene of Night City. With this, the Piranhas worked their way into becoming the one-stop shop for bliss. For a price, the once known as the grunge garage partiers were capable of turning the post-scarcity Time of the Red into a Neon Wonderland.

By the 2040s, the gang was based in the mobile Piranha Palace, shifting their location on a regular basis. The gang took every opportunity to bring in more members, and pulled the most influential people on their circles as clients. Due to the party lifestyle, membership was fluctuating constantly, however, the top leadership stayed constant; Corpse Reviver and her right-hand Bazooka Joe, a crew of young geniuses at the top of their game. Both recruited members from clubs all throughout the metropolis. While Corpse was the brains, Joe was the muscle. He kept the parties secure, and trained new Piranhas to be good at keeping a party lively and safe. Without Joe, Corpse wouldn't have gotten that far. Another notable members was Dirty Shirley, whose manufactured drugs were considered some of the best in the city. There wasn't a single party in Night City without a Piranha; teeth shining and providing everything anyone could want, guarantying a night full of all things exclusive, shiny and damn lit.

One time, the tensions between the Piranhas and the Prime-Time Players rose to a boiling point, and both gangs had a firefight between them that only lasted one minute. As they soon found out, the only flaw was that both groups used guns that had been 3D-printed by utilizing very unreliable materials, makin them explode on the hands of the users. Just mere twenty-four hours later, the creator of these guns, a teen by the name of Zip Print, was found hanging from a lamp post with a bullet hole in his head and "cheap" carved in his chest. Underneath him was a pile of guns from both gangs. Afterwards, the Piranhas and the Players decided on a truce until they obtained new, reliable weapons.

One of the shoals created a less addictive, lime-flavored version of Smash called Piranha Smash, selling it to allied gangs such as the Andersons. The Piranhas also frequently partied in the Danger Zone, a housing facility for Danger Gal employees.

2045

By 2045, after many years recruiting people, the gang included some of the city's best cooks, dealers, NCs, light and sound crews, mixologists, chefs, VR artists, dancers, security teams, bouncers, adult entertainers, and last but no least, clean-up crews. The Piranhas knew how messy the parties could get, so they ensured wherever they went, they wouldn't leave a stain. The gang managed to do all this for one simple reason, they lured in the young and wealthy into the party lifestyle, feeding them a steady stream of drugs and fantasies to keep them hooked, and taking in all the money the spent, giving the Piranhas all the leverage they needed to stay on top. With these resources, apart from making fun times, Corpse Reviver worked non-stop to raise other kids like herself out of the shittiest areas of Night City and gave them jobs. For Corpse, this was her way of creating her own fucked-up family that kept people like her safe.

Around this time, the Piranhas were known to throw the best parties in Night City, still with a notable influence over other smaller gangs such as the Andersons, whom were in danger of being incorporated into the Piranhas. The party gang also had a notorious sway over Playland by the Sea in Pacifica.

Notable Members

• Corpse Reviver (main leader)
• Bazooka Joe (lieutenant)
• Dirty Shirley (head cook)
• Patrick Hamilton